Khulumani Support Group

About us

Khulumani Support Group was founded in 1995 by a group of survivors of apartheid human rights violations, to provide support and assistance to people testifying before South Africa´s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). These small beginnings generated the vision, goals, and structures that persist to this day: Khulumani is a membership-based, civil-society organization which campaigns for truth, healing, and redress for those damaged through our apartheid history and from subsequent gross human rights violations since the end of apartheid, and for the advance of the ongoing struggle to create a democratic, non-racial and just society.

The mission of Khulumani is to build an inclusive and just society in which the dignity of people harmed by apartheid and continuing violations is restored through the process of transforming victims into victors by:
• Sustained advocacy for social justice and human rights;
• Community narrative and documentation processes;
• Social reconciliation processes;
• The economic reintegration of victims and survivors; and
• Developing learning communities to provide health, psycho-social, socio-economic and paralegal services

Objectives
• To secure acknowledgment of what happened to victims through ongoing truth-recovery processes.
• To support the collective struggle for social justice to fully realize the implementation of the TRC´s recommendations for rehabilitation and community reparations, and to promote an environment that supports the rule of law, that provides equal access to justice for all citizens and that promotes a culture of accountability.
• To work for the economic reintegration of victims and survivors through the development of livelihoods activities in partnership with various agencies.
• To facilitate youth participation in social justice issues through the performing arts and other modaities towards community participation in problem-solving.
• To promote justice and reconciliation globally through knowledge exchanges and visits to victims´ groups in countries in the African region and beyond through extending solidarity in respect of activities that promote justice and that unlock the potentil of the formerly oppressed.

Projects:
• Advocacy for equal justice for victims and survivors
• Social and trauma support & counselling for violated & vulnerable people.
• Memory & memorisation for healing & heritage
• Community reconciliation and peacebuilding
• Social enterprises for economic development
• Women´s empowerment for ending discrimination and violence
• Resolution of enforced disappearances
• Providing HIV-related services for key vulnerable populations
• Social audits and access to information for monitoring and accountability
• Youth empowerment through performing arts
• Community empowerment through ICT trainings and access

Marjorie Jobson is the National Director of the Khulumani Support Group.

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